Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1887-09-10

been heard from on the, subject Of the
Wheeling affair.", This Dallas (Texas)
News ~consoles itself. with this threat:
The people Of the United States can
not make the Grand Army of the Re-
public walk under a picture of Cleve.
land, but they will make it walk under
q Democratic administration, of which
he is the head, for several years.to come.
This sounds like the snap of the old
plantation whip lash, but the News will
discover that the veterans Of the war
will not drive quite so easily as slaves.
Here is one from the Columbus (Ga.)
Enquirer-Sun which shows the bitter
hatred of the south toward all who are
not identified with and welded to the
ideal southern Democracy
We think that this thing will hurt
the Republican party. II it does not,
the majority OF the citizens of our Re-
public are lower and dirtler than we
think.
The wartime invectiye Of the south
has not grown obsolete. We all remem'
Der the pet expression-"Lincoln' dirty
hirelings"-used toward our troops in
the early sixties.
The Wheeling Register, in front oI
whose Office the Cleveland picture wa.
hung, mas this "crusher.'
What, then, is the difference between
them, the traitors to the president O
the United States of 1887, and the late
southern confederacy, the traitors to the
president of 1861? What is the differ,
ence?
The Register dare. not attempt to an
swer its own, question. The men who
refused to parade beneath a banner That
was designedly flung to the breeze fol
the purpose Of insulting them are MOI
to be compared with the TRAITORS to the
president Of 1861" The Wheeling visi
tors of1Ss7 simply expressed their dislike
for an individual; the TRAITORS of 1867
deliberately rebelIed against tie govern
ment Of tic limited States. Hence the,
will evermore be known us traitors
while the men who offered their lives
for the maintenance of that govern
ment Will always he known rs patriots
Both have gone into history rs the,
fought.
Another Georgia paper, the Maco,
Telegraph, has this item
&c. \. r." at Wheeling must have
stood for Grand Army Rowdies, judgin!
from the reports.
The only "rowdyism" reported wa
that INDUCED in by the braggarts an
blusterers Of Wheeling, who showed
their d~ispleasure oyer the acts of tn
veterans by boots and yells and threat
of violence.
But the kew note to tiie southern nc
sition is thus sounded by the PaducsI
(Ky.) News.
The doors Of the south are open 10 a
respectable corners The hands an,
hearts Of the southern people are ope
, to all good.meaning men, but they mus
let our politics alone.
A free country is this when peopl
are warned not to take part III politica
affairs. Respectable comers' an
"well-meauing men" may 60 to til
south with capital to build up that r,
gion; they may become property hole
ers, but must not interfere with tn
southerner's "god-given right" to mar
age the ballot box in the interest Of tn
Democracy; must not modest him If II
chooses to open the polls by killing tw
or three men; must silently submit
such local legislation as the rcd-shirte
night-rider and long-l.aired son Of CHI
Z airy may be pleased to impose;-"mu:
let our politics alone" This polite "
pointed invitation should he posted o
all the highways to the south this
: strangers vino 60 that way to build u
homes and fortunes may know befor
hand what to expect. 1t is bold prok
I osition to say that n American cit
zen has not the same political rights an
privileges that all other American cit
t zens have. What would be thought G
the people ofthe north il they shout
place such Il political Introduction upo
the southerners who are among us {
. those who are to come?